The Next Book On My List

(Yes, it’s not a Stephen King Post!)                 So I wanted to take a second to introduce everyone to another author that I absolutely adore, Jodi Picoult. I’ve been obsessed with her since college. I needed a book to read on a flight home to Los Angeles and stumbled across My Sister’s Keeper, the story of a young girl suing her parents for the rights to her own body. Yep, you read that right. Medical emancipation. It was great. One of those books you immediately start raving to your friends about. It was the book that made me a fan.             Since then I have read quite a few of her books and have never been disappointed. With every single book I’ve read by her so far I have been able to ask myself one simple question: What would I do if I were in their shoes? What would I do if my daughter wanted to be medically emancipated from me? How w...

I know it’s been a while. I'm reading like a madman, literally. Eight Stephen King books down...I give you Carrie, Salems Lot, The Shining, The Stand, The Long Walk, The Deadzone, Firestarter and Roadwork. It's been, to say the least, very interesting. I had never read Salem 's Lot , The Stand or any of The Bachman books which include The Long Walk and Roadwork. The last two were written under the penname Richard Bachman which King had used for quite some time before someone blew his cover. Honestly, the more books I read the more excited I become about finishing all of his novels. His style of writing has become so addicting to me. I usually start a book intending to only read a few chapters and end up half way through the book before I know it. So lets starts with a few old reads. Carrie Seriously. It's easy to see how King gained a following after releasing this as his first book .You could easily finish it in a day. Unfortunately in this day and age we know...

Stephen King The next book on my list is Stephen King. Literally. Every Stephen King novel is on my book list this year. All 56 (soon to be 58 since he is releasing 2 new books this year) are on my list. To say the least, I’m anxious.             My dad handed me Firestarter when I was 9 years old . I was really in to horror as a child. I loved Goosebumps by RL Stine and I had started reading Fear Street , also by RL Stine, until my dad gave me that first Stephen King book. I finished it in 4 days. I don’t know what came over me. I was consumed by the story. Looking back I don’t even k now if I completely understood what was going but his writing kept me going page after page. The next thing I knew I had finished Christine, Pet Sematary and The Shining. King became an essential part of my library. The only place I was truly lacking in my Stephen King journey was The Dark Tower series. I conquered that battle last yea...

If you read my last blog and had a chance to glance at my reading list of 2012, you undoubtedly noticed that the first seven books on my list were those of the Harry Potter series. I read the Harry Potter series every year. I feel compelled to do it because I love the story. There’s just something special about these books. There’s something amazing about the triumph of a little boy who grows into a man in this magical world, one that we are near but can’t touch. I began reading the Harry Potter series when I was 12 years old. The first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was released in the US in 1998. I was in the 7 th grade and a friend of mine handed me the book and told me to give it a chance. At the time I was not at all into fantasy so the idea of reading a book about a boy wizard was not at all interesting. I gave it a chance and obviously I’ve been obsessed ever since. Part of my affinity to the books has to do with the fact that as I aged, the characters ...

That is the best way I can describe 2012: It’s the year I read books. Don’t get me wrong I found a way to do other things but for the most part I read books, as many as possible, within a year. It was the first year I ever made a goal for myself when it came to reading. The goal evolved from 50 to 70 with me actually reading 81 books, keeping track of the books, the authors and the order they were read. I enjoyed it because I love books. It gave me a chance to just explore reading and find new authors and new styles of writing. I enjoy reading many different authors and genres, so whenever people ask me if I know of any good books, the first question I ask is what do you want to read. I don’t know about anybody else but when I pick up a book I have to be in the mood to read that kind of book. I try to break up the types of books that I’m reading at a time so I don’t get tired of that specific genre of books. You can only take so many emotional roller coasters of reading suspense nove...